Family Research Council sets the record straight:
The media can spin the news, but it can't rewrite the facts on same-sex "marriage." Social scientist Mark Regnerus made that quite clear in his analysis of public opinion on the topic. Leaning on new Rice University research, the University of Texas professor debunks the convenient storyline of most of reporters -- which is that there's an avalanche of support for homosexual "marriage" that puts conservatives squarely on the "wrong side of history." Rice's Michael Emerson and Laura Essenburg studied the attitudes of 1,300 adults in 2006 and 2012 and found less support for same-sex "marriage" than polls like Gallup and CNN typically find. In fact, Regnerus writes, "in 2012 53% of those surveyed agreed that the only legal marriage should be between a man and a woman, while 13% sat on the fence, and 33% disagreed with the statement.
Second, they detected no statistical significant change in overall sentiment on same-sex marriage over those six years. Third, some things did change -- minds -- and not all of them toward favoring same-sex marriage." In a separate poll, George Barna found that the resistance to counterfeit marriage was actually increasing among evangelical Christians (from 95% to 98%). Like FRC, Regnerus credits most of the inflated support for counterfeit marriage to the line of questioning used in the surveys. Gallup, Regnerus points out, insists on "priming" its respondents with leading questions about the legality of homosexuality, which helps produce a more desired outcome on later queries about marriage. . .